11 design inspirations from Japanese love hotels

There are around 30,000 “love hotels” in Japan, where guest can pay by the hour to escape the daily grind of their lives and enjoy some well earned respite. With so many of them around, love hotels go to great lengths to attract customers with their unique interior design philosophies. Here are some of the best.

Blacklight Art

Art that only appears when ultraviolet light is turned on are extremely prevalent in love hotels. It’s also a good way of telling whether the sheets are clean.

Saturday Night Fever

It might look like a cross between Austin Powers’ pad and John Travolta’s secret dungeon, but is there anywhere else you’d rather invite your date back to? Multi-coloured strip light ceilings might just catch on.

Nautical

Nautical themes are also popular in love hotels. Check out this one complete with a bed/boat, sails and pirate wall art – perfect for a kids room.

Bath/Swimming Pool Combo

You don’t know that you need some things until you know they exist. Who wouldn’t want a bath next to their neon-lit, Grecian pillar-adorned swimming pool?

Cluttered

There’s a bit of a vogue at the moment for soulless open plan spaces free from clutter. Fair enough if you still listen to the Pet Shop Boys, but other design aesthetics are available – why not take every outlandish piece of kitsch design you’ve ever wanted and cram it into one room?